Information and facts about the municipality of Zozocolco de Hidalgo

Location of Zozocolco de Hidalgo

Population of Zozocolco de Hidalgo

The overall population of the municipality named Zozocolco de Hidalgo is 12455 citizens, 6121 males and 6334 females.

Age distribution

The population of Zozocolco de Hidalgo is divided into 5539 minors and 6916 adults, with 1250 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Zozocolco de Hidalgo

11648 people in Zozocolco de Hidalgo live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 8773 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 1296 and 7447 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 5620 citizens of Zozocolco de Hidalgo.

Economic situation

In Zozocolco de Hidalgo about 2734 households are registered.

2696 of these households are common houses or apartments, 1585 are without floor and about 329 consist of one room only.

2030 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 952 are connected to the public water supply, 1544 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 28 households to own a computer, 140 own a washing machine and 1030 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Zozocolco de Hidalgo

Besides the 2367 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 166 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

2295 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 3690 persons did not finish the school. 810 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 901 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 667 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 5 years.